US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Papua New Guinea in May to attend a meeting of Pacific leaders, the island nation’s premier said on his government’s official Facebook page.
The board of Vodafone Group Plc has chosen 29-year company veteran Margherita Della Valle to be its next chief executive officer, defying speculation that the challenged telecommunications giant would, for the first time, pick someone from beyond its own corporate orbit.
Are we there yet? This week could finally see the peak of the US interest-rate mountain and, fingers crossed, the last fire-sale for a US bank in the latest crisis. Yet manufacturing data from China suggests the global recovery still has a long way to go.
The most senior civil servants in the UK Business Department intervened to protect their staff after officials raised concerns about what they described as former minister Alok Sharma’s volatile and intimidating behavior.
China’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly contracted in April, a sign the economic recovery remains patchy and may be struggling to sustain momentum.
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slammed US President Joe Biden for making nuclear threats, saying it marked the “dotage of the old” and would be met by a boost in her country’s atomic arsenal.
US President Joe Biden pledged his administration will work to secure the release of journalists and American nationals held by foreign governments, while calling on the country to defend democracy.
Singapore should avoid an outright contraction in its economy this year, despite being battered by the effects of a global slowdown, the city state’s prime minister said.
Australia’s defense minister flagged potential economic intimidation and pressure on the “global rules-based order” as the nation pursues sweeping changes to its military strategy amid China’s rise.
Shareholders of embattled Brazilian retailer Americanas SA voted to ratify most of the names proposed for its board of directors, after the firm sank into bankruptcy in January following the revelation of a massive accounting error.
